Palin Weighs in on California Senate Race

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Democrats have launched a "Palin Primary" website to track "divisive" House races.

Updated at 2:16 PM PST on Thursday, May 6, 2010

Carly Fiorina got an endorsement of national note Thursday when Sarah Palin announced on Facebook she is backing the former HP CEO.

"Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation."

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"Sarah Palin's endorsement brings with it tremendous media attention, but not necessarily votes. Conservative activists in California know and like Chuck DeVore -- and that's our bottom line. I think the best I can do is point you toward the responses from the conservative base on Palin's Facebook page, and on Twitter: there's a lot of them respectfully but firmly telling the former Governor that she's been misled here. And they're right."